“We would welcome any outside mediation that can bring peace to the region. And we would welcome more than Russia, ”he said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
Ghafur stressed that Pakistan has never refused a dialogue with India "on a bilateral basis or on the basis of any mediation by third parties."
“But this India has always refused mediation and even bilateral dialogue,” he said.
On February 27, the Pakistani army reported that two planes of the Indian Air Force were shot down in Pakistani airspace. The Pakistan Foreign Ministry explained the air strike as a demonstration of readiness for self-defense.
A spokesman for the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that Moscow is ready to fully contribute to the normalization of India-Pakistan relations.
Andrei Chuprygin, a senior lecturer at the HSE School of Oriental Studies, commented on the situation with the Indian Air Force planes shot down by Pakistan with NSN.